Twenty-three convicts from "DPR" prisons transferred to Kyiv to serve sentences – Lutkovska

14:42, 21.07.2016 1 min read

Twenty-three convicts from prisons in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR") were transferred to Kyiv on Thursday on the initiative of the Verkhovna Rada human rights ombudsperson.

"Twenty-three convicts who were serving their sentences in prisons in the so-called DPR and who have expressed a wish to be moved to the territory controlled by Ukraine to further serve their sentences have been handed over to the human rights ombudsman," Ukrainian human rights ombudswoman Valeria Lutkovska said on Facebook on Thursday.

Thus, as reported, 110 convicts were moved from the territory uncontrolled by the Ukrainian government over a period of one year.